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                                         PS 
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                                             Posted - 2006-03-18 : 13:34:08
                                            
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                                            | I need to make a script in SQL 2005 to import data from an Excel sheet into a SQL table.I am using the wizard to import now.Import from Excel 2000. First row of the excel sheet has column names.Excel file name is: EXL.xls, sheet name is: Sheet1Destination sql database name is: NM, table name is: Sht1I use SQL Server Authentication to access the database.User name: ABC and password: DEFDatabase name is: DBI am using the following setting when importing now:- Delete rows in destination table- Enable identity insert | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     Srinika 
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                                            Posted - 2006-03-18 : 16:38:42
                                          
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                                          | I'm using SQL 2000, but may be both are same.U may easily do this by1. Import Export Wizard2. Using A DTS package  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     madhivanan 
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                                     nr 
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                                            Posted - 2006-03-20 : 03:58:52
                                          
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                                          | Odd - I've just done this. - pass in @filenamedeclare @sql nvarchar(1000)	select @sql = 'select * from openrowset(''Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'', ''Excel 8.0;DATABASE=' + @FileName + ''',''select * from [Sheet1$]'')'	create table #a(s1 varchar(100), s2 varchar(100), s3 varchar(100), s4 varchar(100), s5 varchar(100), s6 varchar(100), s7 varchar(100), s8 varchar(100))	insert #a	exec sp_executesql @sql	select left(coalesce(s2, ''), 60), left(coalesce(s4, ''),11)+'   ', left(coalesce(s6, ''), 20), left(coalesce(s7, ''), 20) from #ago==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy.  | 
                                         
                                        
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